My Number 1 goal in starting this platform (MoreMoneyHub.com) is to help you make more money so that you can live the life you want.
If you want to make more money and stop living paycheck-to-paycheck, then chances are the pay from your regular job won’t be enough.
Here’s the good news though: you can use side hustles to make more money and completely become financially independent.
In this article, you’ll find several side hustles ideas that will inspire you so you can achieve your financial goals faster, and even surpass them.
Some of these side hustle ideas are ways to make fast, easy money, whereas others will require you to pick up a skill or spend some time learning the basics.
But the one thing that’s consistent across all of these side hustles is that once you can focus on any one of them, how much money you make is really up to you. Because each one can make you several thousands of dollars or even millions of dollars a year once you build it right (which I’ll show you how in this post).
With that said, let’s explore these lucrative side hustles so you can start making more money as soon as possible.
33+ Best Side Hustle Ideas
1. Make amateur video ads on social media
If you’ve spent any amount of time on social media apps like TikTok or Instagram, then you must have seen those short video ads.
You know – those ads where someone starts out talking about maybe their skin or just hairstyles in general, then they end the video with a link to buy a product.
These ads are called User-Generated Content (UGC) ads, and companies are paying regular people like you to make those ads for them.
The ads are usually very short – 30 seconds, 40, or maybe 60 seconds max.
You don’t have to be a video pro or an advertising expert – in fact, it helps if you’re none of those things. Because the really good UGC ads are the ones where the viewers won’t even realize that they’re ads until they get to the end of the video.
If you want to start getting customers, the way you start is by going on Fiverr and making a post – saying you can create UGC video ads for different products and businesses.
It helps if you can make your ‘amateur’ or relatable, that way your ads can come across as more authentic and generate lots of sales for your clients.
For this side hustle, you can get paid starting anywhere from $100 for a 15-second ad, and even more once you land a few clients.
It doesn’t matter if you’re young or old, teenager or millennial or baby boomer, man or woman, lots of companies want to reach more people that are similar to you – similar interests, backgrounds, age groups, experiences, wants, needs, struggles, hobbies, spending habits, etc.
With this side hustle, you can start with $0 and earn money making ads for these companies – regardless of what products and businesses you decide to start with – maybe supplements, insurance, beauty, home decor, trending products, pet products, credit cards, software and apps, financial products, and so on.
2. Become a local tutor
If you can tutor anything at all – maybe math or English or organic chemistry or the SAT, and so on – then Google search for local tutoring companies around you that are looking for tutors.
I’ve found that becoming a local tutor will often help you remove the competition that comes with being an online tutor and competing with several other tutors everywhere – who are competing for the same clients.
If you tutor locally, you can typically drive a shorter distance to your tutoring location and you can usually set your hours and work with multiple tutoring centers.
3. Get paid to take pictures with your phone
If you use a mobile phone – which everybody does – then there are companies ready to pay you really good money to take pictures with just your phone.
Some of the pictures that sell really well are pictures of people working, writing, typing on their laptops, or in business meetings.
Or things like tools and appliances, nature, cities, travel, people, cars in traffic, tech gadgets like laptops and tablets, and so on.
To get more ideas on the kinds of pictures to take, find out the kinds of pictures that you can sell to bloggers and small and medium-sized business owners and entrepreneurs.
All you need to get started is to start taking pictures of these things and submit your photos to websites that will pay you very well for the photos.
Examples of companies that will pay you to take photos are EyeEm, ShutterStock, Alamy, Adobe Stock, Snapwire, and 500px.
Once you start making money, you can even start your own photography website where you can upload your photos and get paid way more money, since you can name your prices and you take home 100% of your money without any company taking a cut.
4. Become a paid product reviewer
Companies are ready to pay you to review their products and share your thoughts and opinions on them.
Here’s how it works: Say a car maker like Honda wants to get the word out about their latest Honda model.
You can work with Honda to test-run their latest car and give your honest thoughts and opinions.
That way, you’re giving your unbiased opinion, and if you think the car is awesome, people are more likely to get the car because the feedback is coming from a user, not Honda itself.
You can get paid to test and review different products in different categories like gadgets, electronics, beauty products, skin and hair care products, foods, and toys.
Other items you can review are home appliances, travel, entertainment, cars, ebooks, clothes, apps, tools, courses, programs, fashion, and more.
To get started, check out Toluna Influencer Panel or Goodie Box, sign up, and you can start getting paid opportunities to test products based on your profile and demographic.
5. Sell spreadsheets on Etsy
If you love organizing and being productive, then you can make good money selling spreadsheet templates on Etsy.
These spreadsheets are simple to make and you don’t need to have a ton of experience in design or Excel either.
Examples of spreadsheets you can sell are monthly budget spreadsheets, annual budget spreadsheet, Keto food list spreadsheets, zero-based budget spreadsheet, paycheck budget spreadsheets, and more.
For example, you can start with one annual budget spreadsheet, list it on Etsy for $10 or $15, and start making money from that.
Once you start getting customers, you can improve the spreadsheet, charge more, and even start selling other types of spreadsheets.
Popular and lucrative spreadsheets include spreadsheets around paycheck budgets, monthly and annual expenses, savings trackers, habit trackers, and spending trackers.
Other examples of profitable spreadsheets that you can sell are: fitness trackers, diet planners, saving challenges, debt payoff, saving challenges, and more.
6. Manage social media for businesses
Lots of companies are struggling to figure out how to grow their business using social media.
If you’ve built up some decent following on any social media app like Instagram or TikTok, then you can help businesses do well on social media.
To start getting clients, start with your personal network of family, friends, and business associates. See if anyone around you needs to buff up their social media presence or do better with their marketing.
Every business wants more sales and more customers.
If you can give companies a few pointers on how they could bring in more customers with social media, you will build trust, and you’ll get more clients, referrals, and consistent monthly income from your social media marketing side hustle.
7. Deliver groceries
If you love to shop, then you can make money picking up groceries and delivering them to customers.
Check out apps like Instacart, Thrive Market, or Shipt, and you can start making money as a personal shopper delivering groceries to clients.
The way it works is that a customer orders groceries from a retailer online through a grocery delivery app like Instacart; you then pick up the items from the stores, and deliver them to the customer.
You can start out making $300 or more per week doing this.
Depending on your location, the amount of tips you get, and whether you have repeat clients, you can scale up this side hustle to generate more income for you.
8. Start selling candles
Scented candles are one of the most popular items that people use to decorate their homes.
In fact, candles are used in 7 out of every 10 U.S. households, and more than $3.14 billion worth of candles are sold in the US every year.
If you love home decor and would like to get hands-on, then you can start a side hustle making and selling candles.
You can start with as little as $150 and expand your side hustle into a full-grown business making more than $300K every year.
9. Help people get around
If you enjoy driving and love chatting with people, then definitely look into Uber or Lyft.
These are popular ridesharing apps where you get paid to help people get from one place to the next.
Some of the perks of helping people get around are: you get to work flexible working hours, enjoy more pay and tips during peak hours, and you can make anywhere from $25 or $40 per hour depending on your location and the times you enjoy driving.
10. Start a successful printables business
If you’d like to help people stay organized and productive, then you can start a side hustle making and selling printables.
Printables are a form of digital products that your customers can print out and use to organize the different aspects of their life.
You’ve got so many options to choose from for the kinds of printables that you could create – coloring pages, journals, workbooks, trackers (for fitness, saving, paying off debt, weight loss, making money), and stickers.
Other examples of printables that you can create include: workbooks, binders, wall arts, templates, calendars, gift tags, planners, and the list goes on.
Once you decide on the kind of printable that you want to create, design your printable in a design app like Photoshop or Canva.
You then add it to your online store like on Shopify or Etsy, and start making money from it.
11. Teach a skill
If you’ve ever used Google or YouTube to learn how to make a recipe or use a specific software, then you know that there are tons of skills out there that people want to learn.
Can you teach others how to bake, sing, meditate, save money, or get more out of life?
Even if you think you’ve got nothing to teach others, your life’s experiences and twists and turns could be valuable lessons for someone else.
You can record a 2-minute video about what you know, and post it on TikTok or as a YouTube Short.
Once the video starts gaining traction and people start reaching out to you to learn more, you can start a side hustle teaching what you know and building a business out of it.
12. Deliver food
Everyone’s got to eat, and a lot of people find it more convenient to get well-made food delivered to them at home.
If you prefer making money by driving with little to no interaction with other people, check out DoorDash, GrubHub or UberEats.
One of my biggest side hustles is delivering food with DoorDash. I just need to pull up the Dasher app on my phone, find out the busy areas around me, and start delivering food.
I get to see new restaurants, deliver food to people in the comfort of their homes, and see new places around town, all while making money.
13. Sell high-demand products for legit brands
If you’d like to make an impact in other people’s lives, then you can start selling high-demand products that help others live better lives.
I’m talking about selling products like beauty products, essential oils, jewelry, food products, household goods, weight loss, and healthcare products.
Check out Biomat, DoTerra, or Tastefully Simple – these are some examples of companies that will pay you to sell their products to other people.
Whichever companies you decide to work with, be sure to do your research and make sure they sell useful products and that they’re legit.
14. Start a niche-focused blog
If you enjoy writing and helping other people, you can make really good money by starting a blog focused on a specific niche.
Depending on your interests, you can choose from several niches – dieting, fitness, movie reviews, gardening, fashion, local attractions, marriage advice, spirituality, cooking, weddings, sports, Do It Yourself (DIY), yoga, self-improvement, product reviews, life after divorce, book reviews, meditation, travel, home decor, parenting, and so on.
Once you decide on a niche to focus on, the next step in starting your blog is buying a domain name and web hosting – all for less than $2.95/month at BlueHost.com.
Then, you can start writing articles that people in your niche will find valuable.
Do this consistently and you can build a very lucrative blog and side hustle generating several thousands of dollars for you every month.
15. Become a transcriptionist
Are you good at typing and listening to audio? Then you can start a side hustle making good money as a transcriptionist.
A transcriptionist is someone who types out words as they hear them from recorded or live audio.
Some of the clients you’ll be working with span several industries including healthcare, law, finance, academia, media, market research, insurance, investor relations, and small business.
The good news about being a transcriptionist is that you don’t have to keep hunting for jobs on your own. Use sites like TranscribeMe!, Rev, Speechpad, or Quicktate to start getting clients today, and start earning anywhere from $25 or more per hour.
16. Pressure wash trash cans
We all need to have clean homes and put our trash away.
But over time, trash cans and dumpsters collect odor and smells that attract all sort of germs, bacteria and even diseases.
A lot of people struggle with maintaining clean trash cans and dumpsters in their homes – they’re busy or they can’t do it consistently.
So, you can turn this into a good side hustle for yourself using a small-sized pressure washer to clean trash cans.
Your clients will include pretty much everyone in your neighborhood (especially senior people), restaurants, strip malls, and other businesses around you.
For example, you can charge $70 for cleaning one trash can, and once your clients start seeing your good work, they can refer you to others and even retain you to keep cleaning for them on a monthly or even weekly basis.
17. Start a high-growth store on Shopify
Amazon is now worth more than $1 trillion as a company, and they achieved this huge success mainly by serving as a huge online store for us.
You too can build your own successful Amazon-styled online store – with a website called Shopify.
Shopify lets you start and build your own “small-styled” online store (like Amazon), so you can sell things people want and make lots of money in the process.
The list of things you can sell on Shopify is really endless.
You can sell handmade goods like crafts and jewelry, printables, digital products and downloads, ebooks, videos and courses, t-shirts.
Other things that you can sell with lots of profits on Shopify are products around self-improvement, beauty, diet and fitness, skin care, hair care, home decor, essential oils, pets, and so much more.
18. Become a personal chef
If you enjoy creating meal plans and making homemade meals for others, then you can start a highly-profitable side hustle as a personal chef.
As a personal chef, you can work with one or more clients and help them resolve their challenges around food.
For example, you’ll help your clients create meal plans, shop for the ingredients, prepare the meals and serve them, maintain the kitchen, and possibly be the chef when the client hosts guests and organize events.
In return, you can expect to get paid very well with your profits even climbing as high as 85%, since your client will buy you everything you need, and all you’ll need to contribute is your expertise of what to cook and how.
Another method is to prep extra meals and let people in your circles know that you make and deliver well-cooked meals.
Some of your clients can come from your friends, acquaintances, or at work, church, school, social clubs, or even your kids’ school.
19. Become a mobile notary
A notary is someone legally recognized to be a witness when people are signing sensitive documents.
So documents like: court papers, articles of incorporation, property deeds, loan documents, wills and trust deeds, passport applications, real estate contracts, powers of attorney, and more.
As you can see, there are a lot of documents that people need a notary for. You can become a mobile notary where you provide convenience and travel to where the documents need to be signed.
With this, you can charge more money for your efforts and transportation.
For important real estate or financial documents, you can expect to earn around $150 per signing, and even more if you include the costs of traveling.
20. Sell artworks online
Even if you don’t see yourself as a creative or an artsy person, you can start a profitable side hustle selling arts online.
Check out Pexels or Pixabay – where you can download stylish and beautifully-shot images that are completely free to use.
You then bring the photos into Photoshop and make your impressions on them so you can create your artwork (using sites like Behance and Designspiration to inspire you).
The next step is to apply your artwork onto a canvas using websites like Printify or Printful, and then connect your art designs to online shops like Etsy and Society6, so you can start selling your artworks online.
21. Deliver packages with Amazon Flex
If you enjoy driving and would like to deliver packages and joys to people’s homes, check out Amazon Flex.
You control your own schedule and can work as little or as much as you want.
In terms of pay, you can expect to get paid starting from $18 per hour, and potentially even higher, depending on your location and the tips you get.
22. Turn your creative skills into cash
If you’ve got creative skills, it’s hard for AI to replace you and lots of people want to tap into your creativity!
You can start a side hustle around your creative skills and get paid to do things like graphic design, book illustrations, image editing, 3D animations, presentation designs, video editing, promotional video ads, cartoons and comics, or even NFT arts.
Just hop on websites like Fiverr, 99designs, or Upwork so you can see freelancers like you charging $100/hour (sometimes even $150+/hour) for these creative skills.
To get started, simply go to Fiverr, 99designs, or Upwork and create a profile so potential clients can find you and hire you for your skills.
23. Start an email newsletter
If you’re passionate about any topic at all, then you can make money by building an email list around that passion.
You can start an email newsletter around topics like baseball, pop culture, golf investing, finance, basketball, cars, dieting, trading, Tesla, guitar, tech, Apple, anti-aging, soccer, men’s dating, makeup, crypto, lacrosse, adoption, and many more.
Whatever topic you choose: if you love talking about it, chances are there are at least 100 people out there who want to hear from you.
And one of the best ways to find them and start making money is to start an email list.
Once you decide on a topic for your email list, you can use different methods to get people to join your list.
For example, you can create a Facebook group, start a YouTube channel, or run Facebook ads to get lots of people to join your list.
Once you start having people on your list, you can start writing about your passion and selling subscriptions or valuable products that your audience wants.
Your audience will even give you new topics on what to talk about so you never run out of ideas.
24. Sell your poop
Yeah, gross – I know. But there are medical companies out there that will actually pay you for your poop.
Your poop is not a waste afterall, and you can help save someone’s lives with your poop.
Just check out Human Microbes, where you can get paid $500 per stool or up to $180,000 per year for something you don’t want anyways.
Or go to OpenBiome or GoodNature – which are other websites where you can get paid to poop.
So just know: the next time you flush, you could be flushing real money down the toilet.
25. Turn your skills into money
If you can type fast, spot grammar errors, retouch photos, or troubleshoot website problems, then you can make good money as a side hustle.
Because these are skills that people and businesses will pay you really good money for.
And there are literally tons of other skills on sites like Fiverr and Freelancer.com that will earn you steady money and income so you can achieve your financial goals.
26. Sell replacement items on eBay
If you have items taking up space in your home, you can sell them on eBay and make money.
Some of the best things you can sell are used cell phones, watches, old appliances, baby items, collectibles, sports cards, sneakers, vinyl records, musical instruments, unused coupons, board games, used textbooks, video games, and so much more.
But to really make good money with this idea, try selling your items in pieces and not as a whole.
For example, you can make way more money selling the replacement parts of your hand tool separately, more than you would selling the whole item in one piece.
Here’s another example: on eBay, you can make more money selling replacement pieces of the Checkers board game than selling the board as a complete set.
27. Build simple pages on social media
Social media is a content beast – the more content you feed it, the more it wants from you.
If you enjoy posting and creating content on social media – maybe TikTok or Instagram, etc., you can get paid to post regular content on these social media platforms.
Lots of entrepreneurs and small business owners use several accounts on social media, and they need regular, consistent content to keep the pages active so they can grow their business.
For example, a fitness influencer might have 3 accounts on Instagram and another 2 accounts on TikTok, promoting different products and services. You can help influencers and business owners like this run their social media pages.
Start by using the drag-and-drop features and templates within Canva to create short videos for TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube shorts, and you can consistently make good money that way.
28. Become a personal trainer
You can train students from all over the world by recording fitness video courses and selling them online on teaching platforms like Teachable and Kajabi.
Or you can choose to partner with a local gym and help their clients develop and implement personalized fitness lessons, so they can achieve their fitness goals.
29. Sell your past study notes
If you took good notes while in school, you can make really good money selling your study notes to millions of learners all over the world.
Using websites like Studypool, Stuvia, DocMerits, or Nexus Notes, you can offer your study guides, summaries, flashcards, and other learning resources to students who use these sites to learn and ace their classes.
30. Rent out your spare room on Airbnb
If you have a spare room or garage apartment that’s empty, you could be making money renting out that spare space on Airbnb.
All you need to do is list your space on Airbnb, and without doing any extra work, you can have renters paying you monthly in passive income, or at the very least, helping you pay down your mortgage.
31. Start a baking business
If you enjoy baking, you can start baking for people who will pay you to eat your cakes, pies, brownies, cookies, and more.
Start small and bake for friends or family, or take one of your finished baked products to work or school.
Post pictures of your awesome pies and cakes on Instagram and other social media sites, and engage with people who would like you to bake for them.
32. Help businesses improve their emails
So many business owners struggle with sending good emails that put more money in their pockets.
If you enjoy reading emails and can figure out what makes good emails tick, then you can start a side hustle as an email optimization consultant.
You’ll be helping small businesses, like e-commerce stores and fashion brands, write and send engaging emails so they can get more sales.
Once the emails are sent, you can also consult on email deliverability, so their emails get delivered the right way. That way, the emails don’t end up in Spam or, for example, in the Promotions tab in Gmail.
Businesses spend billions of dollars every year on email marketing, and if you can help them get better results with their emails, you can build a successful side hustle and even a full-scale business for yourself.
33. Start a dog care business
If you love dogs, then you can turn your affection for pets into a successful side hustle.
Dog owners need to provide a safe, fun, and comfortable environment for their dogs, but life often gets in the way.
You can start a side hustle providing dog daycare services for pet owners around you. For example, with dog boarding, you can start taking care of dogs while their owners are not available.
You probably know a friend or someone who could use some help with their doggo. Let them know you’d love to take care of their dog whenever the need arises.
And since dog owners often bond over their shared love of puppies, you can get referrals and more new clients as you provide excellent dog care services to your initial set of customers.
With time, you can even expand into other dog care services including pet sitting, dog walking, first-aid training, and running an online store for pet products and supplies.
34. Work as a copywriter for businesses
No business can survive without sales.
And here’s the good news: in this new age of the Internet and social media, you don’t have to be a used car salesman to help businesses get more sales.
If you enjoy writing and have some interest in business, you can start a side hustle as a copywriter helping companies sell their products and services.
Copywriters are often called “salespeople in print ” – which means instead of making cold calls and handling rejections from people, you can quietly sit behind your computer and write words that will convince people to buy products.
Since every business needs good copywriting, you have several options as a copywriter in the specific copywriting niche/industry to specialize in.
For example, some of the highest-paying copywriting niches include health & fitness, finance, eCommerce, pets, mental health & wellness, anti-aging, men’s health, women’s health, dating, travel, self-improvement, and many more.
You can start out as a freelance copywriter working for several businesses.
And once you start seeing the power of your digital pen and how your writing brings in real money for businesses, you can even choose to start your own business and start writing copy to bring in sales for your products and services.
35. Wash and detail cars
Most car washes only clean the exterior of your car, and that’s if their washing systems can do a good job at it.
If you can help people clean their cars, then you can turn it into a nice-income side hustle.
You’ll just need to get a few cleaning products like a leather cleaner, car wash shampoo, vacuum, and maybe a detailing spray to get started.
36. Become a scooter charger
More people are using scooters these days as a fun and easy way to get around. The only problem is when their batteries run low and they need to be charged.
You can download apps like Bird and Lime that pay you to charge scooters.
On the app, you can see a map that shows the locations of the scooters and how much they are worth.
Once you find the scooters, you’ll need to charge them overnight and then return them to designated parking spots so they’re ready for the next day.